Japan Quotes
You should bear the unbearable and be a shield for all Japanese women.
After the Japanese surrender in World War II, the Japanese assumed that the American occupational soldiers would rape Japanese women the way that the Japanese soldiers had done in their occupations. They therefore came up with a plan to have some Japanese women serve as prostitutes in organized brothels so that the Americans' lust would be satisfied.
Japanese Interior Ministry, Order to Women's Corps, September 9, 1945
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
This appears to be the origin of the “bear the unbearable” phrase which appeared in many other documents around the Japanese surrender. See {604741}
Japan (or Nippon) is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, China, Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The kanji that make up Japan's name mean "sun origin", and it is often called the "Land of the Rising Sun".
